FOR THE LOVE OF THE BARD
Love is too young to know what conscience is,
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love…
– Sonnet 151
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QUINCENTENNIAL TRIBUTES TO THE GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE
Saturday June 25, 2016
9-5 Concord Public Library, 129 Main St., Concord Center>
7-9 pm Emerson Umbrella, 40 Stow St. (across the street)
“So far from Shakespeare’s being the least known, he is the one person, in all modern history, known to us. What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man’s work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state . . . What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen?”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Shakespeare or the Poet” *
A warm welcome, friends, to join Ralph Waldo Emerson in lifting a glass in fond memory to the blessed bard at this summer’s 2016 Concord Shakespeare Festival: For the Love of the Bard.
We will gather on Saturday June 25 in Concord. One and all are invited to share their tributes to the blessed bard: sonnets, passages from his plays, et al. We look forward to broadening, together, our visions and deepening our devotion, in order to encompass the burgeoning genius of this master of masters.
~ A Warm Welcome! ~
Stuart-Sinclair Weeks, Founder,
The Center for American Studies at Concord
celebrated essay on Shakespeare in “Representative Men.”
* As preparation, we invite those interested to read Emerson.
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For more information, contact: Richard Kotlarz at info@concord-ium.us